6o4 A Commentary upon the Gafgel Chap.27. fure tobe ( for the world knows us not, i Ioh, 3.2.) what fo great a matter is it ? Was not the Lord Chrift infinitely under- rated ? Verfe i o. e./fndgave themfor the Pottersfield] To the Potter ( faith Zachary) in the honk of the Lora. What the Prophet fetsdown in frtort, and more obfcurely, the Evangeliftexpounds, and applies to Chrift the antitype. So true is that obfervation of Divines, that theold Teftamcnt is bothexplained and fulfilled in the new, by ahappy harmony. Verfe I t. ?A d Iefur flood before the royernour] The belt thereforeand mott innocent may be brought before Magiftrates, andaccufed of high treafon, which ever was, as Lipfitesobfrveth out of Tacitass, Vnicumcrimen eorumquicriminevaca6ant, Eliab was held theKingsenemy. Ieremy laid by theheels for a traitour to the State. Tamil-tiled a pelt. Luther a trumpet of rebellion. Rezaa feedfmanoffedition, c, Chrifts accufers here, fhame-. lefty appeal him of matters that were evidently untrue. This Pilate law, and therefore !Ought fo many waits to deliver him. Verfe I a.He anfwerednothing]Here thenimble Lawyer would have prefently argucd,as thePopesLcgat did at the meetingofthe Princes at Smalcaldia m Germany. He brought Letters from the lob Mani lot, pope to the Elet our of Saxony : and hecauf the Ele*our gave tom.p 4.06, him not a prefent anfwer, he interred, Dui tacet confentire vide. tsar Melanc%hon, being by, made anfwcr, Hoc eft f phiflicum,, elf regula juris, fed non valet inconjeauralibus. Nam dicit, videtter, Cr argumentumvidetterlilviturper non videtur. Chill therefore anfwered nothing, becaufe they alledg,-,d nothing but noto- rious lies, and Inch as he law well the Governour himfelfe faw thorow , and therefore tried fo many policies to let him free. Verfe 13. Beare thou not ? &c.] Yes, well enough; but there is a time, when a man fhould be as a deafman that heareth Pfal.38,13 not, and as a dumb man that openeth not hi, mouth. Ego aurisrm Dominus, ut to lingasæ, Paid he in Tacittu to his obftrcperous ad- verfary. IfIcannot command thytongue, yet I can command mineown ears. And theprudent Will &eep filence in an evil time, Amos 5.13. faith Amos. See the Note above,on Chap, 26 62. Patience and filence were lfaac'sapology to IJllmael, Sile, & funeflam dedifli plagan, faith Chryfflom. ,Verle x4.
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